By Darren Lum The Friends of the Rail Trail are proud of their past educating about and endorsing the use of the Haliburton Rail Trail but also excited for the future with their Toronto to…
Hank DeBruin ends his run on Yukon Quest
By Angelica Ingram For the first time since he became a musher Hank DeBruin has decided to withdraw from a race before completing it. On Friday Feb. 12 DeBruin’s wife Tanya McCready-DeBruin announced on their…
Home lottery chooses Silver Beach as grand prize…
By Jenn Watt The Haliburton Highlands has a place in this year’s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Home Lottery. A 1300-square-foot Silver Beach bungalow worth $458874 is one of seven grand prize homes in the popular…
Jack Frost arrives
By Jenn Watt Belatedly Jack Frost made his way to the Highlands last weekend with bitter temperatures between -41ºC and a relatively balmy -17 by Sunday afternoon. It was more than we bargained for. Over…
Juniors coming together down the stretch
By Darren Lum It always seems like a shame that a basketball game comes down to the last shot. Particularly when a team works as hard as the Red Hawks junior boys’ basketball team did…
Renowned researcher to speak at Environment Haliburton AGM
By Angelica Ingram On Saturday Feb. 20 Environment Haliburton will be hosting its annual general meeting featuring Dr. Norman Yan as the guest speaker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Yan is also…
Sister Mary Lydia
By Lynda Shadbolt Last week I was preparing to go on a four-day silent meditation retreat and two friends were coming with me. One has been before and one was coming for his first ever…
Wolves play with heart in last game
By Darren Lum 2016 was an up and down inaugural year for the Haliburton Wolves. Although the team lost more than it won its last game on Thursday Feb. 11 against the visiting Almaguin Spartans…
Sunday fire causes $100000 in damage
A fire on Sunday devoured a car and part of a home on Redkenn Drive in the Kennisis Lake area. According to Dysart et al fire chief Miles Maughan 15 firefighters responded to the call…
Haliburton Frost Fest and Polar Bear Dip cancelled
Due to extreme cold weather warnings Haliburton Village's Frost Festival has been cancelled for this Saturday. Thursday afternoon recreation program co-ordinator Andrea Mueller confirmed the municipality of Dysart et al had made the decision out…
Affording food
By Jenn Watt If you’ve been grocery shopping in the last couple of months you’ve noticed the incredible increase in the cost of some fruits and vegetables. And if you’ve been paying attention over the…
Canoe FM makes history with OLA award
By Darren Lum Canoe FM station manager Roxanne Casey said she was taken aback by the magnitude of the crowd with more than 1500 people in front of her when she accepted the Ontario Library…
Coping with rising food costs in the Highlands
By Jenn Watt By now most of us have seen the online spoof: a couple goes into a bank looking for a loan to buy a cauliflower. The cartoon is obviously a joke but underlying…
Fire in Eagle Lake burns barn to theground
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } By Angelica Ingram A blaze on Eagle Lake Road destroyed adecades old barn that was home to a variety of animals on TuesdayFebruary 9. Dysart firefighters got the call around11…
Future of events up in air
By Angelica Ingram The following are brief reports of items discussed at the Feb. 1 annual general meeting of the Haliburton Business Improvement Area. There was a lot of talk about last year’s Colourfest a…
Haliburton Forest readies for 2017 championships
By Darren Lum Everything appears to be a go for the upcoming IFSS World Championship 2017 Snow event. That’s the overall sentiment after the Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve held its Sleddog Fun Race…
Health unit sends out immunization reminders
The local health unit has been sending out notices to parents and guardians who haven’t yet had their children vaccinated against a series of diseases. Under the Immunization of School Pupils Act students attending Ontario…
Highlands East thrilled with broadband deal
By Angelica Ingram The following are brief reports of items discussed at the Feb. 8 meeting of Highlands East council. The municipality of Highlands East is happy to be signing onto a new high-speed Internet…
How sweet it is: beekeeping workshop on offer…
By Jenn Watt For most of Ron Lofthouse’s life the buzz of the bees and smell of honey has been a constant. He thinks he “caught the bug” when he was five walking into Lorne…
Looking for info on ridesharing
By Chad Ingram Do you regularly hitch rides with friends or give rides to others? The Community Transportation Partnership run by a group focused on rural transportation options for the county has hired consultant Kate…
Provincial directives trouble health unit
By Chad Ingram The Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit has concerns about the implications of funding and potential accountability changes coming from the province. Last fall the health unit learned it would be…